UNREST IN COLONIES

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27213, 3 December 1953, Page 11

UNREST IN COLONIES

“Incidents May Be Linked”

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 12.15 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 2. Concern over recent discontent in the British colonies of Uganda, Kenya, British Guiana, and Nyasaland was expressed today by the British press. The “Manchester Guardian” said the House of Commons might profitably consider whether Britain was confronted by a series of isolated incidents, or whether there was some link between them. “A cloud is drifting over the scene. Two or three years ago, the major colonies (except Malaya) seemed sailing with a fair wind. “Economic progress, education, and political evolution were advancing] steadily together. Now, in little over a year, we have had the Mau Mau eruption in Kenya (a volcano which is still active), the Nyasaland riots, a new militancy of the mining unions in Northern Rhodesia, the suspension of the Guiana constitution, and this tiouble in Uganda.” The “Daily Telegraph” said that if the critics of the Colonial Secretary (Mr Oliver Lyttelton) over the Uganda issue had been better acquainted with the true complexity of the issue they might have been more cautious. The “Daily Mirror” congratulated British socialist demands for an inquiry into alleged payments to soldiers for Mau Mau suspects killed in Kenya. The “Daily Herald” repeated its demand for Mr Lyttelton’s resignation.